There are tons of set-top boxes and game consoles that will stream on-demand video to your television without the help of your cable or satellite company, or save video from your cable company for playback later. Last week we asked you which boxes you preferred to control your television experience. Then we collected your top five and put them to a vote. Now we're back to highlight the winner.

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Clearly the Do It Yourself crowd was out in force over the weekend: rolling your own HTPC was the far and away winner with over 44% of the total votes. Rightfully so: most of you noted that if you build your own HTPC, you can run whatever you like on it, and free it from the limitations of the other set-top boxes in the roundup. Coming in second with close to 18% of the vote was Roku, and just behind with almost 15% of the vote was the XBox 360. The Apple TV came in fourth with over 13% of the vote, and trailing in last was the Boxee Box, with close to 9% of votes cast. Photo by Bill Bradford.